Saturday, May 26, 2012

Guest Post: The Lego Party Invitation

I asked my incredibly talented husband to create an invitation to our son's Lego party. I showed him a few of the invitations I found on and pinned on Pinterest. He came up with an incredible design. I asked him if he would share how he made it. Here is his explanation. Thanks for the awesome invitation, as well as the awesome tutorial!

My son’s birthday party was coming up and this year his
birthday fell on the weekend following the last day of school. He was born
around Memorial Day and his birthday is usually around two weeks after school
is out. I think we have had one of his classmates ever show up for a birthday
party. Finally, we may have a chance at changing that.

My little guy is really into Legos® and he and my
wife had been planning a Lego® themed party for a couple of months.
So, since I am the graphics specialist, it always falls to me to create an
invitation for my kids birthday parties that uniquely represents who they are
and what they are into that year.

Here is the invitation I created for his Lego®
party this year:

Here’s is how I created it.

1.I downloaded the Lego® background
from clipart available from the Lego® website. There is no download
page. I just had to search Google® for images and found one from the
Lego® website that I could snag.

2.The image was small so I had to load it into
Adobe Photoshop® and carefully tile it together.

Here is the original image file
downloaded from Lego®.

Here is the tiled background I
pieced together.

I exported that background image as
a JPEG so I could use it easily in Adobe InDesign®.

3.I found a Lego® style font. It looks
almost exactly like the one used in their logo. If you Google® this font you
will easily find it.

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I'm a full time working mom of 3 (ages 10, 12 and 18). I've been married to my best friend for 28 years. I'm currently 1/5 of the way through losing half of my body weight. I blog about it at Half a Julie. After a 2 year plateau (no loss, but no gain), I'm moving again! I'm a runner. In addition to working full time and homeschooling the oldest two, I have completed 8/10 classes for my masters degree (graduating in May 2016!).